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Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.

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To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

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We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end.

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Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.

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The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

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The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.

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As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

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But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.

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But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

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I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Explorer

Born: June 6th, 1868

Died: March 29th, 1912

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